Andrea Stenberg is a social media marketing consultant and coach and an award-winning blogger at The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur. She helps baby boomer entrepreneurs – consultants, coaches, service professionals – to standout in a crowded market, position themselves as an expert and to get clients calling them using LinkedIn and other online marketing tools.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Local Insurance Agent Known by Andrea
A Realtor Known by Andrea
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Well the biggest one I think was fear because you know I had a regular pay check. You know I knew what my day was going to be. I knew what I was supposed to be doing. And suddenly when I am starting my own business I didn’t know if money was going to be coming in, I didn’t know…there wasn’t a handbook of saying okay if you are an entrepreneur these are the things you must do every day”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Overcoming Underearning: A Five-Step Plan to a Richer Life Books by Barbara Stanny
Favourite Quote:
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky – Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach
Recommended Online Resources:
Social Media Examiner – Social Media Examiner helps businesses master social media marketing to find leads, increase sales and improve branding using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“My best advice is…you know there is a myth you know about the self-made millionaire that is is somebody who pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and did all by themselves. And I think anybody who is being honest with themselves or honest with the world knows they didn’t get there by themselves, they had help along the way and there is nothing wrong with asking for help when you need it”…[Listen for More]
More About Andrea Stenberg:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase – it’s extraordinary.” David Attenborough
Other Quotes From the Chat with Andrea Stenberg:
- “Assuming a no then of course it is going to be no”
- “Ask what you want and if you only get it 50% of the time you are 50% further along than you were if you didn’t ask”
- “you can always gain more knowledge, you can always gain expertise, you can always hire expertise but you have to have the faith in yourself that it is going to work out. Until you can either develop that faith or at least fake it its going to hold you back”
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